DECK 4 Flashcards by Neel GRE | Brainscape

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Bridle

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Bride = Wife

Restrain

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Crestfallen

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Crest has fallen down

Sad and disappointed

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Curtail

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Cut tail

To cut short

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Elucidate

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To explain clearly

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Feckless

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Lacking strength

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Iconoclastic

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Attack cherished traditions

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Immure

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I am yours

Confine against their will

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Inscrutable

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In scrutinisable

Difficult to understand

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Profligate

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Bill gates

Waste money

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Skittish

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Skit is horror

Easily scared

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Superflous

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Excessive

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Vociferous

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Loud

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Contentious

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Contests

Quarrelsome

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Dogmatic

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Dog has opinions

Opinionated

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Fallacious

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False

Misconception

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Foolhardy

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Reckless

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Impugn

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Imply ugly

Attack verbally

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Inveterate

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Veteran

Long used to the habit

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Pithy

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Pi

Precise

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Pliant

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Plank

Easily bent

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Sanctimonious

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Making a show of being morally superior than others

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Upbraid

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Up beard

Scold

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Vexation

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Waxing

Irritation

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Acquisitive

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Interested in acquiring wealth

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Attenuate

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Get weaker

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Aversion

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Dislike

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Blithe

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B light

Joyful

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Dissident

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Not a resident

Doesn’t obey rules

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Efficacious

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Effective

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Pernicious

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Per nicotine

Having harmful effect

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Predicament

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Difficult situation

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Prolix

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Long and wordy

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Veritable

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Verifiable

True

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Dissent

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Dis sentiment

To differ in opinion

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Ebullient

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E bullet bike

Very excited

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Facetious

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Face is not serious

Treat serious issues with humour

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Falliable

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Fall able

Can make mistakes

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Inveigle

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In vehicle - get in car after robbery

To obtain by deception

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Mendacity

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Men audacity

Unwilling to tell truth

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Munificient

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Money sufficient

Generous

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Parochial

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Parents

Narrow minded

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Pedestrian

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Dull

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Prevaricate

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Pre verification - lie in visa

Lie

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Recrudescent

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Re crude descent - re=repeat

Recur

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Confound

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Confusion found

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Digression

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Departure from the main idea in writing

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Duplicitious

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Duplicates - clone thieves like in Dhoom

Deceitfulness

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Expedient

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Expeder name

Convenient but Immoral

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Libertine

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Liberty

Lustful

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Modish

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Following what is popular in fashion

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Nascent

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Nasa sends - everything a new person to moon

New Birth

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Pious

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Religious

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Providential

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Provident funds

Lucky

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Schism

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Prism

Division of groups into opposing factors

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Stalwart

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John Stewart from Young Sheldon

Loyal

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Supplicate

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Supply cat

Pray humbly

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Terse

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Abrupt

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Tirade

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Tired

Long angry speech